explain the impact of crusade war on the relation of Muslim and Christian?
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Christianity and Islam were already in conflict in 1095 AD in Spain and Sicily and in Byzantine East.
So it would be an exaggeration to say that Crusades were altogether responsible for their hostile relations. The
soft corner of relationship shown by the Alp Arsalan is one of the episodes of crusades in which Muslims
displayed a good relation with Christians, which is when Emperor Romanos was taken captive and conducted
into the presence of Alp Arsalan, who treated him with generosity and following conversation is said to have
taken place in the battle of Manzikert in 1071 A.D:
Alp Arsalan: What would you do if I was brought before you as a prisoner?
Romanos: Perhaps I would kill you, or exhibit in the streets of Constantinople!
Alp Arsalan: My punishment is far heavier; I forgive you and set you free.
Also the more soft approach shown by the Pope George VII‟S letter to the an- Nasir, the Muslim emir of
Mauretania, in 1076 AD, as a document of peace and were things could have gone differently7
. But exceptions
don‟t make rules.